Jordan S on Nostr: Let's imagine you try to play a game of 100 potatoes, and the rules say you can delay ...

Let's imagine you try to play a game of 100 potatoes, and the rules say you can delay consumption of potatoes, consume them, or let them decay, you cannot plant any new potatoes to grow them.

This is what will happen to Bitcoin's supply unless a supply increase is issued by a fork.

Bitcoin in theory will eventually run out of supply that is available to the general population, even coins like Litecoin with a higher supply of 84 Million will eventually (in theory) run out of coins to circulate.

There needs to be a process in which new currency is minted to replace destroyed, or lost currency.

This is where tail emissions comes in, Monero has a low supply but will ensure that there will be a constant supply of New Monero entering the market to replace Monero that is gone permanently.